All We Are

I did this song for the One Synth Challenge at KVR Audio. You had to do all of the music (including drums) with the Free Alpha synth (nice synth BTW), and you could only use freeware effects; and they could NOT be anything that changed the overall sound of the synth. So it was all basically reverb, delay and a little compression. You also weren't allowed to use anything in your DAW other than the EQ. This was all to level the playing field.

Only had a couple of hours to do this, so it's a little rough, not very well thought out, etc... Picture Robin Trower singing over a synth band (where everyone has the same synth). The contest goes until the end of the month if anyone is interested.

hah
that would actually be a cool challenge. you would even have to base your song chords on letters from peoples names. another plus: I would have something to do with one of the 4 phonebooks that show up on my doorstep annually (other than the recycle bin).

Nice
I know the alpha is a great synth and it truly is a great idea to limit yourself to one piece of 'equipment' thereby limiting your choices thereby limiting the outcome of the music you produce (but not necessarily 'defining' it)

cool song with human league type over/undertones (vocally mainly i think)

very cool - im starting to feel that i should curate an 'experimental' challenge in the near future....we will see

bryn
thanks man. the hardest part was the vocals. I have a pretty standard setup for them, but the contest didn't allow it. weird how used to something you get When when I had to use another set of tools to do the vocals, I felt uncomfortable. You do need to curate a challenge.

michael
Is this a Black Sabbath remake? Melody sounds like an old tune of their's sans guitar and the processed voice, but i can't recall the title. Regardless, good tune in its own right. great song as expected from you, dude.

oh crap
i thought that melody sounded familiar. you're right. that tune has bongo's though. it also sounds a little like a bad company melody and a JImi Hendrix melody. thanks for the listen (and the heads up).

Synth
I dig the fact that your so into searching these synths out , you have help me find so many and I thank you for that , at first when I hit play I thought I was listening to caravan by Black Sabbath at least I think its the song, its amazing what can be accomplished with softs synths. Before posting I read through your other comments and saw thatSammy pointed out the Sabbath reference, it does have that same tone in the vocal delivery. Very cool song nontheless

All We Are
I love experiments with limitations. Thrown together or not, this is a very cool tune. Warm and slinky, lounge-y vocals. Haven't heard Robin Trower mentioned in quite a while. I loved that band....
SW

Synthnicity
I have very little knowledge of synths and electronic gizmos but you keep knocking out really interesting songs with them, Michael. One day I might have to sit down and get myself some learning. Enjoyed. Regards, Peter.

Totally original. again.
Listened to this a few times now and the monotonous synth backdrop starts growing on you and the vocals blend perfectly with the arpeggio synth. Great choice and combination of samples - simple and effective. Another really cool post, I even like the slighly unfinished or casual feel, which works in favor of the track - contrasts the intensity in the vocals.

All We Are
Very cool. I hear lots of influences yet it is still fresh and original. Sometimes something done quickly, while not having the polish we as artists may hope for, really capture the essense of what makes us artists to begin with. I really enjoyed this - thanks!
Sig

this is
Inspiring me to play around more with the synths, as i can't seem to get anything really musical out of them most of the time. This comes across as very bluesy and very pleasant too.... love that haunting vocal cheers M

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